The New York Times, June 26, 2018. Could common prescription medications be contributing to depression and rising suicide rates? Over one-third of Americans take at least one prescription drug that lists depression as a potential side effect, a new study reports, and users of such drugs have higher rates of depression than those who don’t…Continue Reading Common Drugs May Be Contributing to Depression
The New York Times, June 19, 2018. A third of children under 19 are regular users of dietary supplements or alternative medicines. Using data from a large national health survey, researchers found that multivitamins were the most common supplements, followed by vitamin C, omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin D and melatonin. The lead author, Dima M….Continue Reading A Third of Children Use Alternative Medicines
LA Times, June 12, 2018. The incidence of depression has been rising in the U.S. for more than a decade. So has Americans’ reliance on prescription medications that list depression as a possible side effect. The researchers, led by Dr. Dima Mazen Qato of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Illinois at Chicago,…Continue Reading Are prescription medications making Americans depressed?
The Washington Post, June 12, 2018. More than a third of American adults are taking prescription drugs, including hormones for contraception, blood pressure medications and medicines for heartburn, that carry a potential risk of depression, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Dima Qato, an assistant professor at the…Continue Reading More than a third of American adults take prescription drugs linked to depression, study says
Reuters, June 2018. (Reuters Health) – More than one-third of American adults take medications that have the potential to cause depression, a U.S. study suggests. As of 2015, about 38 percent of adults took one medicine with depression as a known side effect, up from about 35 percent a decade earlier, researchers report in JAMA….Continue Reading Many U.S. adults take medicines that can cause depression